Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 62 89
Rank change year-on-year +38 +27 +39
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 176 58 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 8.91% 3.18% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% 3.47% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 37 27
10th Percentile £413 £451 £470
25th Percentile £475 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £785
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £66.71 - £27.81

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,760 1,671 2,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.07% 91.66% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 1,031 1,502
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £433 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £686 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £34.25 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £48.67 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (8.52%) Confluence
2 7 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.68%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.14%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.14%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.57%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.57%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.57%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.57%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.57%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.57%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.16%) Azure
2 19 (10.80%) AWS
3 18 (10.23%) Power Platform
4 12 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (6.25%) GCP
6 10 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.84%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (2.84%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.27%) ChatGPT
8 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (2.27%) SaaS
8 4 (2.27%) Serverless
9 3 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.70%) GitHub
9 3 (1.70%) IaaS
9 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.70%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.70%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) Firewall
2 4 (2.27%) Network Security
2 4 (2.27%) VPN
3 3 (1.70%) DHCP
3 3 (1.70%) DNS
4 1 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.57%) NAS
4 1 (0.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.39%) Power BI
2 5 (2.84%) Metadata
3 4 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.27%) Tableau
4 3 (1.70%) Data Vault
4 3 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.14%) MySQL
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.57%) Big Data
6 1 (0.57%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.57%) Informix
6 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (16.48%) JIRA
2 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.57%) ERwin
3 1 (0.57%) GitLab
3 1 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 79 (44.89%) Finance
2 76 (43.18%) Social Skills
3 42 (23.86%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (16.48%) Banking
5 20 (11.36%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.98%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.41%) Front Office
10 5 (2.84%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.84%) Legal
10 5 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.70%) Aviation
12 3 (1.70%) Retail
12 3 (1.70%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.14%) Military
14 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (27.84%) Analyst
2 35 (19.89%) Business Analyst
3 21 (11.93%) Senior
4 20 (11.36%) Lead
5 19 (10.80%) Architect
5 19 (10.80%) Project Manager
6 11 (6.25%) Consultant
7 10 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.55%) Data Analyst
8 8 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (3.98%) Senior Business Analyst
9 7 (3.98%) Senior Manager
10 5 (2.84%) Banking Analyst
10 5 (2.84%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (2.84%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (2.84%) Payments Analyst
10 5 (2.84%) Payments Business Analyst
10 5 (2.84%) Programme Manager
10 5 (2.84%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (2.84%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.84%) LangChain
2 4 (2.27%) LangGraph
3 3 (1.70%) REST
4 2 (1.14%) .NET
4 2 (1.14%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.14%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.14%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.57%) A2A Protocol
5 1 (0.57%) JSON
5 1 (0.57%) Kafka
5 1 (0.57%) Middleware
5 1 (0.57%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.57%) Next.js
5 1 (0.57%) Pandas
5 1 (0.57%) Playwright
5 1 (0.57%) React
5 1 (0.57%) SAML
5 1 (0.57%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.57%) Spring
5 1 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.95%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.41%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.27%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.70%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.70%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.70%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.70%) PMI
8 2 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.14%) Derivative
8 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.41%) Windows
2 4 (2.27%) Linux
3 3 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.55%) Agile
2 35 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (19.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (16.48%) DevOps
4 29 (16.48%) Migration
5 27 (15.34%) Decision-Making
6 26 (14.77%) Analytics
6 26 (14.77%) Project Management
7 25 (14.20%) Workshop Facilitation
8 23 (13.07%) AI
8 23 (13.07%) Project Delivery
9 22 (12.50%) Risk Management
10 21 (11.93%) Requirements Gathering
10 21 (11.93%) Roadmaps
11 20 (11.36%) Change Management
12 19 (10.80%) Business Analysis
13 17 (9.66%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (9.66%) User Acceptance Testing
14 16 (9.09%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.09%) SQL
2 10 (5.68%) Python
3 7 (3.98%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.41%) Java
5 3 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.14%) C#
6 2 (1.14%) Korn
7 1 (0.57%) C++
7 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.57%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.57%) R
7 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.23%) Degree
4 7 (3.98%) PMI Certification
4 7 (3.98%) PMP
5 5 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.27%) CBAP
7 3 (1.70%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.14%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (1.14%) CFA
8 2 (1.14%) CISSP
8 2 (1.14%) ISEB
8 2 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.57%) APMG
9 1 (0.57%) CISM
9 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.80%) QA
2 18 (10.23%) Data Quality
3 13 (7.39%) GDPR
4 10 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (3.41%) NIST
6 5 (2.84%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (2.27%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.27%) GRC
7 4 (2.27%) PMO
7 4 (2.27%) Solvency II
8 3 (1.70%) ISO 20022
9 2 (1.14%) ISO 8583
9 2 (1.14%) NIST 800
9 2 (1.14%) PSD2
9 2 (1.14%) SLA
10 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.57%) IFRS
System Software
1 5 (2.84%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.57%) Docker
4 1 (0.57%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (4.55%) Terraform
2 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.27%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.57%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (0.57%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.57%) vMotion
Vendors
1 36 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.95%) SAP
3 10 (5.68%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.55%) Oracle
5 7 (3.98%) Databricks
6 6 (3.41%) Google
7 4 (2.27%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.70%) Charles River
8 3 (1.70%) Informatica
8 3 (1.70%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.70%) VMware
9 2 (1.14%) Ariba
9 2 (1.14%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.14%) Remedy
9 2 (1.14%) Talend
9 2 (1.14%) Workday
10 1 (0.57%) Avature
10 1 (0.57%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.57%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.57%) Sparx